Garnishing Wages

When one of your employees is ordered by a court or IRS levy to have their wages garnished, those payments must be handled as part of your payroll process.

Complicating matters, the regulations surrounding garnishment payments vary by state. For example, the federal government allows a maximum of 25 percent of an employee's wages to be garnished, while some states enforce lower amounts, and others limit what debts can be considered for garnishment.

To ensure that you're processing garnishments within the law, it's important to work with a payroll provider that knows the system inside and out and handles these cases as a matter of course. In serving over a half-million payroll clients in all 50 states, Paychex can give you the benefit of their experience.